Staging Social Justice

Author : Norma Bowles,Daniel-Raymond Nadon
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809332397

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Staging Social Justice by Norma Bowles,Daniel-Raymond Nadon Pdf

Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The anthology also vividly describes the transformative impact of these creative initiatives on participants and audiences. By reflecting on their experiences working on these projects, the contributing writers—artists, activists and scholars—provide the readerwith tools and inspiration to create their own theatre for social change. “Contributors to this big-hearted collection share Fringe Benefits’ play devising process, and a compelling array of methods for measuring impact, approaches to aesthetics (with humor high on the list), coalition and community building, reflections on safe space, and acknowledgement of the diverse roles needed to apply theatre to social justice goals. The book beautifully bears witness to both how generative Fringe Benefits’ collaborations have been for participants and to the potential of engaged art in multidisciplinary ecosystems more broadly.”—Jan Cohen-Cruz, editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America

Author : Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487536688

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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia Jordán,Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas Pdf

This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abuse, injustice, and inequality. Far from the traditional monolithic view of theatrical works as tools for expanding ideology, these essays each recognize the power of theatre in reflecting on issues related to social justice. The first section of the book focuses on textual analysis, taking into account legal, feminist, and collective bargaining theory. The second section explores issues surrounding theatricality, performativity, and intellectual property laws through an analysis of contemporary adaptations. The final section reflects on social justice from the practitioners’ point of view, including actors and directors. Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre reveals how adaptations of classical theatre portray social justice and how throughout history the writing and staging of comedias has been at the service of a wide range of political agendas.

Author : Clark Baim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030465551

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Staging the Personal by Clark Baim Pdf

This book examines the history, ethics, and intentions of staging personal stories and offers theatre makers detailed guidance and a practical model to support safe, ethical practice. Contemporary theatre has crossed boldly into therapeutic terrain and is now the site of radical self-exposure. Performances that would once have seemed shockingly personal and exposing have become commonplace, as people reveal their personal stories to audiences with ever-increasing candor. This has prompted the need for a robust and pragmatic framework for safe, ethical practice in mainstream and applied theatre. In order to promote a wider range of ethical risk-taking where practitioners negotiate blurred boundaries in safe and artistically creative ways, this book draws on relevant theory and practice from theatre and performance studies, psychodrama and attachment narrative therapy and provides detailed guidance supporting best practice in the theatre of personal stories. The guidance is structured within a four-part framework focused on history, ethics, praxis, and intentions. This includes a newly developed model for safe practice, called the Drama Spiral. The book is for theatre makers in mainstream and applied theatre, educators, students, researchers, drama therapists, psychodramatists, autobiographical performers, and the people who support them.

Author : M. Chemers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230616813

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Staging Stigma by M. Chemers Pdf

Staging Stigma is a captivating excursion into the bizarre world of the American freak show. Chemers critically examines several key moments of a performance tradition in which the truth is often stranger than the fiction. Grounded in meticulous historical research and cultural criticism, Chemers analysis reveals untold stories of freaks that will change the way we understand both performance and disability in America. This book is a must-have for serious students of freakery or anyone who is curious about the hidden side of American theatrical history.

Author : Pat Carlen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : 0855201215

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Magistrates' Justice by Pat Carlen Pdf

Author : Yasco Horsman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804770323

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Theaters of Justice by Yasco Horsman Pdf

"Theaters of Justice is an important and highly readable in-depth study of post-war legal and literary events that continue to exert their influence on the contemporary understanding of justice and historical truth."---Ulrich Baer, New York University --

Author : David Krasner,David Z. Saltz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472025145

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Staging Philosophy by David Krasner,David Z. Saltz Pdf

The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for future scholarship. Staging Philosophy raises issues of critical importance by providing case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought, including aesthetics, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, deconstruction, critical realism, and cognitive science. The essays, which are organized into three sections—history and method, presence, and reception—take up fundamental issues such as spectatorship, empathy, ethics, theater as literature, and the essence of live performance. While some essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of theater and performance, others analyze the assumptions of manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about creating texts and performances. The first book to bridge the disciplines of theater and philosophy, Staging Philosophy will provoke, stimulate, engage, and ultimately bring theater to the foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further philosophical investigation into theater and performance. David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies, African American Studies, and English at Yale University. His books include A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1920 and Renaissance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910. He is co-editor of the series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. David Z. Saltz is Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. He is coeditor of Theater Journal and is the principal investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the University of Georgia.

Author : Adrienne M. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 1849352607

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Emergent Strategy by Adrienne M. Brown Pdf

Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. In the framework of emergence, the whole is a mirror of the parts. Existence is fractal - the health of the cell is the health of the species and the planet. Change is constant. This book is about how we can shape the changes we experience to match our intentions using strategic methods that are as adaptive, resilient decentralised, and interdependent as the patterns of flocking birds or differentiating cells. A secular spirituality based equally on science and science fiction.

Author : J. Westgate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137357687

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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage by J. Westgate Pdf

Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190642167

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Music, Song, Dance, and Theatre by Melvin Delgado Pdf

The performing arts is one particular area of youth community practice can that can be effectively tapped to attract youth within schools and out-of-school settings, or what has been referred to as the "third area between school and family." These settings are non-stigmatizing, highly attractive community-based venues that serve youth and their respective communities. They can supplement or enhance formal education, providing a counter-narrative for youth to resist the labels placed on them by serving as a vehicle for reactivity and self-expression. Furthermore, the performing arts are a mechanism through which creative expression can transpire while concomitantly engaging youth in creative expression that is transformative at the individual and community level. Music, Song, Dance, and Theater explores the innovative programs and interventions in youth community practice that draw on the performing arts as a way to reach and engage the target populations. The book draws from the rich literature bases in community development and positive youth development, as well as from performing arts therapy and group interventions, offering a meeting point where innovative programs have emerged. All in all, the text is an invaluable resource for graduate social work and performing arts students, practitioners, and scholars.

Author : Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820348421

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Territories of Poverty by Ananya Roy,Emma Shaw Crane Pdf

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

Author : Raymond Rastegar,Freya Higgins-Desbiolles,Lisa Ruhanen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040128213

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Tourism, Global Crises and Justice by Raymond Rastegar,Freya Higgins-Desbiolles,Lisa Ruhanen Pdf

This book gathers theoretical and empirical studies exploring the link between global crises, sustainable tourism and the justice challenges being faced by vulnerable groups, individuals, and society. While any crisis may exacerbate existing inequalities, the crises of the 21st century are compounding and complicating the ways the impacts unfold and engulf individuals, communities and indeed, the global community. Recent crises revealed how dependent our economies and societies are on the tourism and hospitality industries. While studies of crises in tourism have proliferated, with concerns for risk management, recovery and resilience, COVID-19 has exposed the need to think more profoundly on this topic. In such circumstances, therefore, tourism actors must respond to the sustainability and justice challenges resulting from current and future crises by rethinking, redefining and reorienting tourism. The chapters in this edited volume present a discussion of pertinent themes that consider just transformations, issues of climate justice, diverse worldviews and knowledges, possibilities for solidarity through tourism, and concerns with power and decolonisation. This book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academic of tourism, development studies and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Author : Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia-Soormally,Glenda y Nieto-Cuebas
Publisher : Toronto Iberic
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1487507658

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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre by Erin Cowling,Tania de Miguel Magro,Mina Garcia-Soormally,Glenda y Nieto-Cuebas Pdf

This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

Author : Yunci Cai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429620768

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Staging Indigenous Heritage by Yunci Cai Pdf

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Demonstrating that such villages are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation, the book shows that this reinforces a culture of dependency on the brokers. By critically examining the relationship between Indigenous tourism and development through the establishment of Indigenous cultural villages, the book addresses the complexities of adopting the ‘culture for development’ paradigm as a developmental strategy. Demonstrating that the opportunities for self-representation and self-determination can become entwined with the politics of brokerage and the contradictory dualism of culture, it becomes clear that this can both facilitate and compromise their intended outcomes. Challenging the simplistic conceptualisation of Indigenous communities as harmonious and unified wholes, the book shows how Indigenous cultures are actively forged, struggled over, and negotiated in contemporary Malaysia. Confronting the largely positive rhetoric in current discourses on the benefits of community-based cultural projects, Staging Indigenous Heritage should be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural heritage studies, Indigenous studies, development studies, tourism, anthropology, and geography. The book should also be of interest to museum and heritage professionals around the world.

Author : Julia C. Strauss,Donal B.Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857717023

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Staging Politics by Julia C. Strauss,Donal B.Cruise O'Brien Pdf

This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.